The American Way Urges Scraps Drive To Save Steel
A wartime plea urges voluntary scrap collection across the United States to prevent iron and steel shortages hindering war production. It contrasts American free collection with Nazi coercion and stresses citizen duty alongside the War Production Board guidance. It calls on 130 million Americans to participate.
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America
Uncle Sam
Office of War Information
Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
War Production Board
Gas Masks Helmets in the Cellar War Time Survey
The War Production Board’s Conservation Division urges households to inventory hidden wartime items. It explains how worn tires, old irons, pails, and even a lawn mower could be repurposed into gas masks, shells, bayonets, and ammunition, urging families to search homes and reclaim materials for the war effort.
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Evening Bulletin
Philadelphia
War Production Board
Conservation Division
County Scrap Losers Must Sweep Street
Atlantic Iowa reports a Cass versus Montgomery county National Scrap Harvest contest. The two counties race on per capita participation with a street sweeping payoff for the losing side. Cass pledges to sweep every farmyard and barn to win. Montgomery vows to clean streets after scrap.
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Atlantic
Iowa
Cass
Montgomery
Uncle Sam
Caas
Red Oak
Cass County Salvage Committee
Cass County
Scrappy Talks Scrap Yard Finds and Beetle Control
Scrap py notes in an exclusive interview that a used rim will yield bug poison for Japanese beetles and that a surplus of scrap like iron and steel can be repurposed. The story highlights surprising amounts of scrap uncovered by a good house-cleaning and garage-cleaning.
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Scrappy
Salvage crew finds household goods hidden at New Bedford home
Al Bibeau in New Bedford called the salvage committee to come prepared. When they arrived they found a 1932 sedan a gas stove stove bed and the inside of a piano in front of his house.
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New Bedford
Mass
al Bibeau
Bibeau
Paul C Cabot Led Conservation Division Salvage Operations
Paul C Cabot deputy director of the WPB Conservation Division is an investment banker turned public servant. Born in Brookline Massachusetts he studied at Harvard, served in World War I, co founded State Street Investment Corporation and remains its president while directing salvage activities across four division sections in Needham Massachusetts.
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Paul C. Cabot
WPB Conservation Division
Brookline
Mass
Harvard
Field Artillery
First National Bank
Boston
State Street Investment Corporation
Needham, Mass
WPB
Conservation Division
Salvage Phone Number Urged By WPB On Air
Washington WPB Conservation Division urges local salvage committees to publicize the salvage telephone number daily in papers and on air. Increased calls correlate with higher per capita scrap flow as citizens receive information on usable material and donate items they would otherwise not.
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Washington
WPB
United States
Scrap drives and home front urged in wartime appeal
A wartime appeal emphasizes nationwide scrap collection to feed steel mills and shipbuilding. Admiral Emory Land and Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby stress total effort, urging Americans to save scrap at home as essential to war munition production and victory.
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Emory
Land
War Shipping Administration
Oveta Culp Hobby
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Farmer 74-year-old boosts scrap drive with 6000 pounds
Lemuel Black, a 74-year-old farmer from Hightown New Jersey, defies age to aid the war effort. He organized two workers on his farm and helped collect 6000 pounds of metal for salvage.
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Hightown
N. J
Lemuel Black
Farmer Black
Idea Of The Week Scrap Drive Across Factories
A reader submission proposes a national salvage effort with local drives in industrial communities. City officials set aside vacant lots near factories for scrap metal collection, with sections allocated to each company. Employers urge workers to contribute, a committee ranks piles by size relative to workforce, and a merit award is given.
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International Business Machines Corporation
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